What's causing the mental health crisis among young people of the 2010s-2020s?
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90%
Increased awareness/willingness to diagnose
87%
Phones
72%
Social Media
63%
Mass Psychogenic Illness
59%
REM defficient sleep
36%
Urbanicity
36%
There actually is no mental health crisis, it just looks like there is one due to e.g. biased reporting
33%
Hearing about bad things going on (like Climate Change)
29%
Socioeconomic hardships
24%
Nanoplastics
22%
Microplastics
15%
Some sort of ingested/inhaled contaminant
8%
cocaine dust particles passive intake
5%
COVID vaccine side effect
Resolves according to what whatever source I consider most trustworthy on the subject (probably the APA, CDC, or Scott Alexander) lists as the causes on Jan 1, 2030.
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cocaine dust particles passive intake
Microplastics
@Arcmage7000 to big to be internalized by GI tract and exert such consequences, try nanoparticles or nanoplastic, i would bet on that one
@MatthewKhoriaty Do you have a source or two describing the crisis? I'd like to learn more about the origin for this market.
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Yup, this is much of the story:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2818735
Then it doesn't help that parents indulge in their children's BS instead of giving them a good smack on the head
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